03379nam 2200601Ia 450 991082575640332120200520144314.00-8093-8838-3(CKB)2560000000101775(EBL)1354455(OCoLC)842885728(SSID)ssj0000877012(PQKBManifestationID)11523164(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000877012(PQKBWorkID)10906785(PQKB)10405665(MiAaPQ)EBC1354455(OCoLC)607714732(MdBmJHUP)muse27895(Au-PeEL)EBL1354455(CaPaEBR)ebr10701566(CaONFJC)MIL485131(EXLCZ)99256000000010177520050126d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFor dust thou art /Timothy Liu1st ed.Carbondale Crab Orchard Review Southern Illinois University Pressc20051 online resource (80 p.)Crab Orchard series in poetryDescription based upon print version of record.0-8093-2652-3 Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; One; Tributaries; Revival; Low Tide; Ars Poetica; Homo ex Humo; Malignant; Trespass; Orpheus at the Threshold; Self-Portrait as Fucked-Up Mess; Self-Portrait as Seventies Teen; Riding the Bull; The Wealth of Nations; At the Grand Bazaar; Civilization and Its Discontents; Secret Combinations; A Valentine; Called Back; Rosetta Stone; Two; The Day After; A Prayer; On Broadway; Dining Out after the Attack; Holy Law; Ready-Mades; Terrorism; Of Thee I Sing; Contemplating Disaster with the TV Off; Sitting Still; An InfernoVita BrevaTenderness in a Dark Age; For the New Year; Beauty; Elegy for Oum Kolsoum Written Across the Sky; Kamikaze Pilots in Paradise; Three; The Book of Abraham; The Model; Anniversary; On Hearing the Seven Last Words of Christ; Dan Al Set; Mayakovsky's Scream; Manifest Destiny; What Remains; Overcast; Pedophilic Ode; Cemetery; Fault Line; Something Coming; Disgrace; Besieged by Roses Shot from Quivers; A Raid for the Bridal; Ekphrasis in Excelsis Deo; Holding Pattern; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back CoverRunning the gamut from traditional to radical forms, Timothy Liu's sixth collection of poems, For Dust Thou Art, continues the trajectory of his previous books but extends his lyrical range. The centerpiece of the volume's tripartite structure is a meditation on the events surrounding 9/11 and its aftermath. In his poems, Liu explores what a twenty-first century American "poetry of witness" might look like and protests the charge that the poetic generation to which Liu belongs is stymied by a kind of jaded amorality. Whether taking on public spectacle or contemplating the fCrab Orchard award series in poetry.American poetry21st centuryAmerican literatureAmerican poetryAmerican literature.811/.54Liu Timothy1697390MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825756403321For dust thou art4078055UNINA